Mini DV to VHS adaptor where to buy??

[Pepsi1311]

I just wondered if anyone knew where we could get one of these from. It's for my O/H's dad. He says it looks like a VHS cassette where you can put the smaller tape into.

 

Any info would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Ang

[silverglade5]

I just wondered if anyone knew where we could get one of these from. It's for my O/H's dad. He says it looks like a VHS cassette where you can put the smaller tape into.

 

Any info would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Ang

Ang. I've never yet found a VHS cassette adaptor to take a Mini DV tape, only one taking the larger older style mini VHS camcorder tape. I wish there was one, as I could do with one myself! You may however get some help by contacting the manufacturers of your camcorder or perhaps put a similar note out on one of the specialist camcorder interest forums on the internet.

[mr chris]

Are you sure it's not an 8mm-VHS adaptor? DV tape is digital, and so AFAIK you can't adapt it to play in a normal (analogue) video player. The two technologies aren't directly compatible

 

Ebay's possibly your best shot for an old 8mm or 16mm to VHS adaptor.

[plekhanov]

I just wondered if anyone knew where we could get one of these from. It's for my O/H's dad. He says it looks like a VHS cassette where you can put the smaller tape into.

 

Any info would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Ang

I'm almost certain no such thing exists. You can (or atleast used to be able to) get CVHS (Compact VHS) to VHS adapter cassettes which perhaps you are confusing them with.

 

You need to find out exactly what kind of tapes he's got by no means are all camcorder tapes the same. For formats other than CVHS the easiest way to watch them on TV is by playing them on the camcorder and using the adapter cable it came with to connect to TVs. As camcorders are fiddly things which often break transferring the files to a computer and DVDs ASAP is advisable.